Un/settled multiculturalisms : diasporas, entanglements, 'transruptions' / edited by Barnor Hesse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hesse, Barnor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Ethnic relations.

Great Britain.

Ethnic relations.

Multiculturalism--Great Britain.

Multiculturalism.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Race relations.

Immigrants--Great Britain.

Immigrants.

Minorities--Great Britain.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Unsettled multiculturalisms

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, [2000]

Summary:

This anthology reconsiders the meanings of multiculturalism in the West. In introducing a new conceptual language, the volume stresses the importance of distinguishing between the multicultural as a signifier of the unsettled meanings of cultural differences, and multiculturalism as the signified of attempts to "fix" their meaning in national imaginaries. The book also casts the debates about multiculturalism in the contexts of globalization, post-colonialism, and what Barnor Hesse calls "multicultural transruptions"--which he sees as resurgent, irrepressible multicultural issues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-255) and index.

ISBN:

1856495590

1856495604

OCLC:

43953982